Your arrogance forced you from the city and university and into a mystical

Pilgrimage across three continents in search of esoterica. “All things

Are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something

Not to be poisonous”—you rejected the humours as the cause of all evil.

Blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile to be regulated by dose of metals.

Joe Milford is still a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s workshop and a professor of English. His first collection of poetry, Cracked Altimeter, was published by BlazeVox Press in 2010 and his second is still forthcoming from Hydeout Press.